André Bloch (composer)

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André Bloch (born January 14, 1873 in Weißenburg , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † August 7, 1960 in Paris ) was an Alsatian composer.

Life

André Bloch studied at the Paris Conservatory with Ernest Guiraud and Jules Massenet . In 1893 he won the first Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Antigone based on a text by Ferdinand Beissier . After the stay in the Villa Medici (Rome) associated with the award , he taught harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1898, where his most important student was Jehan Alain . He later taught at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau. The composer Fernand Oubradous was one of his private students . Bloch was best known as an opera composer. His first opera Maïda was premiered in 1909, his last comic opera Guignol , written in 1939, was premiered in 1949 at the Opéra-Comique . Bloch created part of the instrumentation for a performance of Offenbach's unfinished Hoffmann stories . He also composed symphonic works and ballets, chamber music, piano works and songs.

Works

  • Antigone cantata after Ferdinand Beissier, 1893
  • Feminaland , ballet, 1904
  • Maïda , Opera, 1909
  • Une nuit de Noël , Opera ("conte bleu"), 1922
  • Brocéliande , Opera, 1925
  • Kaa , symphonic poem based on an episode from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling , premiered in 1933 at the Concerts Colonne
  • Au Béguinage symphonic poem, 1931, premiered in 1956 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées with the Orchester des Concerts du Conservatoirepar under Josef Krips
  • Guignol , Buffo opera based on Justin Godard and Henri Fabert , 1939, premiered in 1949 at the Opéra-Comique
  • Denneriana for piano and clarinet, 1940
  • L'Isle nostalgique , symphonic poem, 1945
  • Fantaisie variée for piano and bassoon, 1946
  • Concerto-ballet for piano and orchestra, 1947
  • Suite palestinienne for violoncello and orchestra, 1948
  • Les Maisons de l'éternité, croquis d'orient for violoncello and orchestra, 1950
  • Petite suite dominicale for small orchestra
  • Air à danser for piano
  • Thème varié, Andantino for piano
  • Dans la palmeraie for piano and flute
  • Goguenardises for piano and bassoon
  • Révélation for two voices a cappella
  • Mon père m'a donné un mari , song with piano accompaniment
  • Dans les bois , song with piano accompaniment

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birth certificate at the Weißenburg registry office
  2. ↑ Musica et Memoriam: Bloch's biography, see 1893
personal data
SURNAME Bloch, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreas Bloch (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Weißenburg , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1960
Place of death Paris